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Leni Zumas is the author of three books of fiction, including the bestselling novel RED CLOCKS, which won the 2019 Oregon Book Award for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the Neukom Award for Speculative Fiction. Red Clocks was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and was named a Best Book of 2018 by The Atlantic, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, Entropy, and the New York Public Library. Vulture called it one of the 100 Most Important Books of the 21st Century So Far.
Her fourth book, WOLF BELLS, is forthcoming in 2025 from Algonquin.
A finalist for the 2021 John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, Zumas is also the author of FAREWELL NAVIGATOR: STORIES (2008) and the novel THE LISTENERS (2012). Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the New York Times, The Times Literary Supplement, Granta, Guernica, The Cut, Tin House, and elsewhere. She has received grants and fellowships from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the Regional Arts & Culture Council, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Zumas lives in Portland, Oregon, where she is a professor in the creative writing program at Portland State University. Her first name rhymes with “rainy.”